to see their siblings can go out. jonah has not been away from me. steve s son, my son, they re quite affected. they are not going to go into new spaces, overwhelming spaces without a structure and support and every day jonah happily got out of the car, ran to his wonderful aide, chris, and came home filthy. came home with dirt from climbing up the canyon and with the rope swings. and just happy, happy child. like every parent dreams of having is a happy child who goes to camp and enjoys his summer rather than enjoying the summer of no structure. i can t tell you what this has meant to all the families. i talked to the parents. they can t wait until next year. as steve alluded to, this is a long list for the camp. i am hopeful. i want to work with parks and reck to expand this rec to expand this so more children with parent. hopefully with the speerties that vicky brings with expertise that vicky brings with this maybe we can get an after-school program. every kid deserve
beautiful boy with autism. and i remember march of last year went by mclaren lodge and i saw you, phil, and i know you have told this story a couple of times how i brought my boy, a.j. there, and said, can you help us? my boy has autism. what can you offer him in the summertime as a camp experience? and that sort of began a long relationship and wonderful time working with you and lucas and a number of other people here that spent time and effort trying to find ways that we could involve both the community, the private sector, and so on, to get this a reality. because it is expensive. the stats are really daunting that you heard from vicky. one in 120. mostly boys. that means one in 40 boys in san francisco has autism. and that s if there was some kind ever external threat that was neurologically damaging our children everybody would be up in arms. because it s mysterious, we don t know where it comes from. it s partially genetic, partially environmental. the needs are stil
whoa! you don t want to do it yourself? you can try. [inaudible] hello. hello. is anybody home is anybody home hello hello nobody s home nobody s home [beating drums] oh, good job. rope swing. [inaudible] where is this one going to go. give me five. yeah! wow. nice rhythm. nice. good job. all right. so that s just a glimpse of those successful four weeks and i d like to have sally come just for a couple minutes and share with her with you personal experiences regarding this. thanks. just want to thank parks and rec and especially steve and vicky for the amazing summer my son had. jonah is 10 years old. he s severely autistic. he s not verbal. every year we get the park and rec wonderful offerings. my daughter talks about what she s going to sign up for. it s it s what can we do for jonah? jonah goes to camp mom as steve alluded to and it s just not the same as being out with other kids his own age. it s so good for the